Thanks.
FWIW, have had diamond, recumbent and CF frames. Motorized all with Golden Eagle gas. No free lunch.
All different!
So, decided to go electric, with a Swift folder. Small 20” wheels, with full bike height…nifty rig no long made.
Had the Dynamik and lent it out and just got back…so decided maybe, to go e. Has large rack for bat-pack…
Recumbent bikes, motored or not are hard to move on incline. Hard to see (low) and hard to run in traffic due to visions.
The CF is easy to get going and visually safer…
NOTHING can be done to mitigate danger of going too fast on bicycle and dippos indescriminately opening car door, not checking rearview first...have to be careful, especially in agri areas...small towns. People are generally clueless.
What you say about CF rig might be so.
Rans bikes are very expenseive, but also an easy ride - or the same as a diamond (traditional) rig and almost as relaxing as recumbents…but as we noted “no free lunch.” Adding weight does alter balance but not as radically as some suggest.
And, the CF seat layout makes cushion/shock SEAT POST nimpossible...only can use forks...but I only ride on strts.
CF with feet flat on ground is nice.
If I can find link to pics of my motored machines will post, if I can. All slick and all simple...except the e-rig, which is complicated with size, need for pack and controller...but...
The CF Rans seems perfect for e conversion and simple, though spendy. Pack, controller, hub motor (I live on hill), current to charge.
Front hub would be unnoticed...but, motor or pck might affect thinkgs a bit.
Still debating a converson...then too, might be able to just use same pack on both rigs...never thought of that...
Anyway. seems few people have converted these very spendy bicycles into e-bikes...why do it, with plethora of cheap rigs and so on?
And, to all this add "individual differences"...
